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Arlyn Stewart
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Initially Posted - 02/05/2004 :  10:29:43  Show Profile  Visit Arlyn Stewart's Homepage
A thread on another forum was discussing the merits of the three trailer designs. The Mac 26, Hunter 260, and C250. The responses were mostly in favor of the Hunter 260 based on greater interior space and headroom advantages over the C250.

Visiting a Hunter 260 site to get the particulars, I noted that current pricing was offered. While hard numbers weren't provided for either the shipping or dealer prep... they offered max numbers. Grabbed my desk calculater and just for grins started puncing in the numbers to outfit a 260 comparible to what I bought in the c250. Admittedly, I used the upper range for both shipping and dealer prep.

The result was that the 260 was more than twice what I paid for my '96 250, enough so that I could have reduced the shipping and dealer prep to the minimum numbers and it was still double.

Do I have a point? No... I just found it interesting.
Arlyn C-250 W/B #224

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 02/05/2004 :  12:24:32  Show Profile
What you might call "twice the boat for half the money"!!
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 02/05/2004 :  12:31:11  Show Profile
A quick search on YachtWorld yeilded prices of between $18,900 and $33,161 for the C250, and $35,973 for a Hunter 260 (This Hunter was located in Puerta Rico).
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Oscar
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Response Posted - 02/05/2004 :  16:04:51  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I do not consider the H260 trailerable. It is a wide load and requires permits. You can put anything on wheels, but the extra hassle defies the purpouse. And then you get to pay extra for the hassle? In that case I'd get a nice C-30 and rent a slip. Lot's of headroom , still cheaper.

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Bryan Beamer
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Response Posted - 02/05/2004 :  23:57:58  Show Profile
Here is a couple of Hunter 260 listing

The first 3 are used


26 2001 Hunter 260 $33,500 SOLD
26 1998 Hunter 260 keel $31,500 SOLD
26 1997 Hunter 26 $23,900

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A Hunter 260 with wheel steering and 15hp O/B that is well equipped will sell for approximately $39,000 with freight and commissioning. A Hunter 260 with tiller will sell for approximately $35,000.
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JimB517
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Response Posted - 02/06/2004 :  00:20:01  Show Profile  Visit JimB517's Homepage
A fellow on our dock (who recently moved back to Arizona) had a 260. I helped them dock one day and got invited aboard. The boat has no side decks and tons of freeboard. It was very hard for them to handle in a cross wind. They had no easy way to get off the boat and onto the dock short of a prodigious leap. Even though the boat is huge outside, the inside was not that nice. It still didn't have standing headroom. The only place I could stand was in the hatch area. No pop-top.

It's a fractional rig with the 3 point rigging and no backstay. There are stainless steel bars for lowers. The owner said raising the mast was a simple one man job using a gin pole setup. This was a water ballast boat. They towed it to/from Arizona without permits and using a normal truck.

The cockpit and open transom was wonderful - it's a great boat for sitting around the dock. It would be much better backed into a 25 foot slip.

I wish I'd met them on the water, I am sure my C25 would have smoked them.

This was their first boat and they were TOTAL novices.

It seems like the kind of boat novices would buy (at great expense). They were already discussing getting a new, bigger boat.
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